Circle's stock soared 168% on Thursday, closing at $83.23, after the stablecoin company priced its NYSE IPO at $31 and raised almost $1.1B in the offering
Shares of Circle Internet Group soared 168% on Thursday after the stablecoin company and its selling shareholders raised almost $1.1 billion in an initial public offering.
What to expect at WWDC 2025: iOS 26 and other software branding changes, redesigned software interfaces, productivity enhancements, minor AI changes, and more
Company set to highlight software redesigns as it remains on sidelines of AI revolution. — Apple Inc.'s upcoming Worldwide …
VA used a DOGE AI tool by Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia that hallucinated contract sizes to cancel 24+ deals; Lavingia says “mistakes were made”
We obtained records showing how a Department of Government Efficiency staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill.
OpenAI appeals a court order in The New York Times case requiring it to keep ChatGPT outputs indefinitely, saying it conflicts with its user privacy commitments
OpenAI is appealing an order in a copyright case brought by the New York Times that requires it to preserve ChatGPT output data indefinitely …
Trump says Elon Musk “went CRAZY” and that canceling his government contracts is “the easiest way to save money”, as their One Big Beautiful bill feud escalates
Musk has gone to war with Donald Trump. What happens next? Dan Milmo / The Guardian : Elon Musk signals he may back down in public row with Donald Trump Wired : Elon Musk's Feud With President Trump ...
The UK FCA says it will lift its ban on offering crypto exchange traded notes to retail investors “to support UK growth and competitiveness”
The move is to support U.K. growth and competitiveness, the FCA said. — What to know: … U.K. financial regulator …
Q&A with Runway CEO Cris Valenzuela on making the movie-making process cheaper and faster, copyright cases, why using Runway is like using a camera, and more
Today, I'm talking with Runway CEO and cofounder Cris Valenzuela. This one's special: Cris and I were live at an event …
United Airlines partners with Spotify to provide passengers with free access to 450+ hours of curated playlists, audiobooks, and podcasts across 130K screens
Access over 450 hours of curated content for free on seat-back screens. … United Airlines is expanding its in-flight entertainment catalog …
Walmart expands its partnership with Alphabet-owned Wing to bring drone delivery services to Atlanta, Charlotte, Houston, Orlando, and Tampa, adding 100 stores
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DocuSign reports Q1 revenue up 8% YoY to $764M, subscription revenue up 8% to $746.2M, net income up 113% to $72.1M, and cuts FY 2026 forecast; DOCU falls 18%+
Shares of DocuSign tanked 18% in trading on Friday, a day after the e-signature provider reported stronger-than-expected earnings but slashed its full-year billings outlook.
AMD says it has acquired the employees behind AI inference chip developer Untether AI, a day after announcing it acquired AI software optimization startup Brium
The chip designer confirms to CRN that it has acquired the employees of Untether AI, a developer of AI inference chips marketed …
China's Hainan province tests letting some corporate users bypass the Great Firewall for global internet access, as the island seeks to become a free-trade port
China's southernmost province of Hainan is piloting a programme to grant select corporate users broad access to the global internet … Bluesky: @emilprotalinski . Forums: Slashdot Bluesky: Emil Protali...
How spyware posing as an app from a humanitarian organization spread among Syrian army officers, mainly via Telegram, and fueled the Assad regime's collapse
The investigation into the collapse of the Assad regime reveals a significant technical dimension, particularly … Bluesky: @socialmedialab.ca . Forums: r/netsec and r/cybersecurity Bluesky: @socialmed...
Google releases an upgraded preview of Gemini 2.5 Pro, saying its Elo score jumped by 24 points on LMArena and it leads in coding benchmarks like Aider Polyglot
Abner Li / 9to5Google :
Source: Trump's World Liberty Financial sent a cease-and-desist letter to the company behind $TRUMP and to Magic Eden after they announced the $TRUMP Wallet
This is less than an hour after Bloomberg reported that the World Liberty Financial project sent a cease and desist to both the memecoin project and Magic Eden. … X: Molly White / @molly0xfff : The Tr...
An interview with ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet, as the company navigates political firestorms in The Netherlands and abroad and the impacts of Trump's trade war
ASML, the Dutch company that makes multimillion-dollar tools to manufacture advanced semiconductors, is grappling with the repercussions of a tech trade war. LinkedIn: Michael D Pendleton LinkedIn: Mi...
An Apple-funded study says developers using the App Store generated $1.3T globally in billings and sales in 2024, 90% on which developers paid no commission
https://www.apple.com/... Jeff Johnson / @lapcatsoftware@mastodon.social : New blog post: — Why does Apple make a minority of developers finance the entire App Store? — https://lapcatsoftware.com/...
Chinese startups and tech giants are racing to create general AI agents for Chinese and global consumers, following the popularity of Butterfly Effect's Manus
Last year, China saw a boom in foundation models, the do-everything large language models that underpin the AI revolution. Bluesky: @technologyreview.com Bluesky: @technologyreview.com : A stampede of...
Broadcom reports Q2 revenue up 20% YoY to $15B, vs. $14.96B est., net income up 134% YoY to $4.97B, and AI revenue up 46% YoY to $4.4B+, driven by AI networking
Katherine Hamilton / Wall Street Journal :
Thread AI, which offers a composable infrastructure platform to help enterprises design, deploy, and scale AI workflows, raised a $20M Series A led by Greycroft
- In communcation. When Angela McNeal and Mayada Gonimah led the modeling and AI/machine learning products group together at Palantir, they had a lot in common.
X changes its developer agreement to prevent third parties from using “the X API or X Content to fine-tune or train a foundation or frontier model”
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch :
Anthropic unveils custom Claude Gov models tailored for US national security customers and designed to be applied to planning, support, analysis, and more
presumably exempted from the company's standard acceptable use policy ( https://support.anthropic.com/ ...) https://www.anthropic.com/... @elder_plinius : You think these Gov models have more guardrai...
Shield Technology Partners, an AI-enabled managed IT service platform, acquires four IT companies and launches with $100M from Thrive Holdings and ZBS Partners
We have some very exciting work going on at Zillion with our AI Labs across all client verticals. … Shield Technology Partners : We're just getting started. Let's talk about how we can help your IT s...
In May, Microsoft launched Signal, a 120-page print magazine focused on its tech and distributed to business leaders every few months, to counter digital noise
“I don't think the layoffs are over, either. I keep hearing that there will be Xbox- related layoffs soon, potentially by the end of the month.” — www.theverge.com/notepad-micr... [image] Tom Warr...
Anthropic co-founder Jared Kaplan says Anthropic cut Windsurf's direct access to Claude models largely because of reports that OpenAI was acquiring Windsurf
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch :
Shopify: Revolutionizing Commerce with Winter Edition '26
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